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k. A college is an institution for the education of young

men.

1. A republic is a government by the people.

m. Government is an institution created by the people for the protection of their lives and liberties.

n.

A bachelor is an unmarried man.

0. A gentleman is a man who has no visible means of support.

p. Spiritual is that which is not material.

13. Wherein, if at all, are the following classifications faulty?

a. Students may be divided naturally into three groups, -the athletic, the idle, and the industrious.

b. The chief poetic forms are the epic, the narrative poem, the lyric, the elegy, the ode, and the sonnet.

C. Education: primary, secondary, collegiate, technical, scientific, and professional.

14. Comment upon the reasoning in the following:

a. He who is content with what he has is truly rich. No envious man is content with what he has.

No envious man, therefore, is truly rich.

b. If this candidate used money to secure his election, he deserved defeat.

C.

But he did not use money for this purpose.

Therefore he did not deserve defeat.

Whatever abridges liberty abridges happiness.
But law abridges liberty.

Therefore law abridges happiness.

d. No sensible man is indifferent to money. This man is not indifferent to money. Therefore he is a sensible man.

e. "He has no appreciation of beauty, for he has no

f.

taste for pictures."

"War is a blessing, not an evil. Show me the nation that has ever become great without blood-letting." g. "No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that each person, as far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. . . . Each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of persons."

h.

...

"Whatever benefits industry, benefits the country; and this measure, if it becomes law, will cause factories to spring up where now there is nothing but waste and desolation."

i. "I am sure he must have known of the plan; for only members of the committee knew of it, and he was a member of the committee."

j. "There should be no restriction of debate in Congress, because freedom of speech is one of our most sacred rights."

15. Analyze Stevenson's descriptive method in his picture of the Sea Fogs, with regard to,

a.

The selection and grouping of details.

b. The means employed to indicate the point of view.

C.

The use of movement.

d. The means used to secure vividness.

16. Analyze Hawthorne's The Ambitious Guest

from the point of view of,

a. Unity.

b. Plot.

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17. Determine roughly the relative proportions of description and narration in Irving's Rip Van Winkle.

INDEX

Accuracy in the choice of words,

47

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Clearness, in the choice of
words, 44; in exposition, 53
Coherence, in the composition,
8-9; in the paragraph, 24; in
the sentence, 35
Composition, fallacy of, 134
Congruity, 188

Connotation, 187
Conviction, 113-114
Crawshaw, W. H., 81
Creighton, J. E., 152, 153
Criticism, 74

Dana, R. H., 99, 220
Darwin, Charles, 33, 87, 112
Deductive reasoning, 144, 151
Definition, logical, 58-59; test-
ing the validity of a, 59-61
DeQuincey, Thomas, 189
Description, nature of, 191-193,
195; effectiveness in,
196;
point of view in, 199; vivid-
ness in, 211

Development of the paragraph
topic, 16-22

Dialogue, 253-254

Dickens, Charles, 214
Digressions in narration, 248
Division, logical, 65; rules of,
67; the fallacy of, 134

Ease, 186

Elements of narration, 234
Eliot, George, 19, 192
Emphasis, in the paragraph, 24;
in the sentence, 41-42
Ending, of the composition, 12;
of the narrative, 254-255
Enthymemes, 146
Euphony, 188-189

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